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Review of The Imam Baildi Cookbook

The Imam Baildi Cookbook

Imam Baildi

Kukin Music

Rating: ★★★

This is the second album by the Athens-based band, and it's nothing if not varied. Taking some of their own...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011

Review of Shukar

Shukar

Toni Kitanovski & Cherkezi Orchestra

Yellow Bird

Rating: ★★★

Macedonian jazz guitarist Kitanovski studied at the Berklee College of Music in the US, and like most of its graduates...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Apr/May/2012

Review of Flea Market Music

Flea Market Music

Leonardo Marques

180G

Rating: ★★★

Leonardo Marques, guitarist of Udora and sound recordist to the likes of Milton Nascimento, returns with a fourth solo project,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: November/2022

Review of Biyo (Water is Love)

Biyo (Water is Love)

Saba

Sud Music SUD002

Rating: ★★★

Pop-culture history is littered with actors chancing their arm at cutting records, from Robert Mitchum’s dalliances with calypso through to...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2010

Review of Cumbia Beat Vol 1

Cumbia Beat Vol 1

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Vampisoul VAMPICD116

Rating: ★★★★

Peru had a sizzling, cosmopolitan music scene in the 1960s and 70s, when shifting nationalist politics, coupled with huge rural...

Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: October/2010

Review of Pod

Pod

Afro Celt Sound System

Real World Records

Rating: ★★

Released in 2004, the original Pod was the penultimate album from the dance fusion supergroup before they ceased putting out...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2013

Review of I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits

I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Piranha VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★

Here is a remarkable compilation of modern rural acoustic guitar and vocal music from Botswana. One of the performers on...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of So a Cantar

So a Cantar

Duarte

Alain Vachier Music Editions

Rating: ★★★★

Three years ago, on his album Sem Dor Nem Piedade, Duarte dove deep into his mourning for a lost love;...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Hidden Legacy

Hidden Legacy

Harmonia

Folk Sounds Records

Rating: ★★★★

Eclectic would be the right word to describe this offering from Cleveland-based Eastern European collective Harmonia. For once, the term...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Nov/Dec/2012

Review of Yarrow Acoustic Sessions

Yarrow Acoustic Sessions

Lori Watson

Isle Music

Rating: ★★★

Lori Watson grew up in the Scottish Borders, an area where there seems to be a ballad around every bend...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018

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